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There may be some that are funny even if they are a bad idea and it generally shouldn't be the only criteria. Think at least twice before making a rape joke. If in doubt think of another joke.

Generally they are a bad idea and need to be carefully thought about. You should probably also stick to a few guidelines: the victim of the joke should not be the victim of the rape, it should not be trivialised (this includes inappropriate comparisions and probably the original title), it shouldn't be threatening and it shouldn't blame the victim. If you are not following these you probably need to think about it ten times and consider different viewpoints on it. Those more likely to be victims [women, maybe some other subgroups] (or who have actually been victims) have much more leeway.

Note that I don't think they should be banned unless there is a seriously threatening, harassing or inciting aspect but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be criticism.

I don't think any malice was intended by Notch but I think it fell in the trivialising category and I am glad that he has decided to change it. Being about an animal helped make it ridiculous but probably made the word rape unnecessary. The British 'shagger' or Australian 'rooter' would probably have worked OK although I don't know if there is a US equivalent lighter than the F-word. 'XXXXer' might have worked.
I'm sure that, to Apple, the more relevant question is: How many iOS device users would they lose by letting you sync iTunes library with your Android phone?

I'd guess a lot, but even if that's wrong, it takes hundreds of incremental music sales to offset the loss of just one iPhone sale.
There's probably legal concerns on their part as well: gun manufacturers get sued. A lot. By government departments, by victims of gun crime, lawsuits both genuine and spurious. If you're a manufacturer of 3D printers you can probably think of much, much better ways to spend your money than defending or settling a lawsuit against you.

If this guy wants to actually go ahead with his project he's probably going to have to accept he'll need to buy the printer rather than lease it.
Well, I assume a sleeping Windows machine wakes faster than it takes to boot from scratch too. You don't have to shut Windows down completely every time you're finished with it.
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That's not necessarily a bad thing. If you read the article and have nothing to add, then best say nothing. Better than saying something about an article you haven't read, that's for sure.
What a dumb project.

You could build a single-use .22LR pistol out of ABS, sure. The barrel would have to be three inches thick to contain the pressure, there'd be tons of propellant blowby as the barrel warped under pressure, it'd only work once, and the total lack of rifling would give you pathetic accuracy.

It would "work", but be totally impractical, as well as expensive. (Printing giant blocks of solid plastic on a FDM machine is spendy) It's like the actual goal of this project is to get the ATF to take an interest in regulating 3D printers.
Probably faster to code it than to learn to draw
>I am not saying that joking about rape is okay if "only" 1 in 40 women in the audience has been raped. Just that the figures are questionable.

They certainly are. FBI labs, who had every incentive to find otherwise, has discovered that, of every 100 sex crime reports filed by women, between 20 and 40 of them are false:

"False Rape Accusations May Be More Common Than Thought":

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194032,00.html

Researched by Wendy McElroy, editor of ifeminists.com (who also had every incentive to find otherwise, and who expected to).
> declared busted by Mythbusters

Oh, goodie, case closed then. Mythbusters have this tendency to "bust" stories that revolve around rare and unique circumstances by running just few experiments. Obviously that's a flawed approach.
Photo viewer and Media Player are there. When you first open a picture or a video, Windows asks what app to use - Metro or desktop one. It can be changed later in Program Defaults.
Regarding your biggest complaint, they did not remove "tons" of desktop software. In fact, all of the software that you mention all exists in Windows 8.

If you want to use Windows Photo Viewer or Windows Media player, just right click whatever you are trying to view, and set your default program.
Money is not a huge motivator for Notch... back in March of this year, he gave seven figures ($3 million) of his personal dividends to his fellow Mojang employees:

http://www.develop-online.net/news/40013/Notch-gifts-3-milli...

Given his taken on money — and that Notch has taken a very public stance against participating in helping to close the PC — it is very unlikely that a fat cheque would result in a change of his actions. Time will tell, I suppose.
The first sign of trouble I've seen for every social site in the last 10 years has been when that site's users start saying, "At least we're better than ________."
Yeah this is political correctness gone wild. You can tell a good joke about anything, and you can tell a joke in poor taste about anything as well.
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It is nice to read that Steve Wosniak supports the idea of iTunes on Android but to be honest, it does not make any sense for Apple.

The battle of mobiles is not about the hardware and the OS, at least, not only, but about the ecosystem around it. Google would not like its Play ecosystem to be on Apple's device, it is important for them that people buy their platform to get access to it (however, nobody would like to do that nowadays as the Play ecosystem is quite small). Now if you think about iTunes...
My Lenovo T61 does the same and has done since I bought it a long time ago.

There is perceived quality and actual quality. OSX has perceived quality, but little actual quality. You'll experience that if you have to deal with projectors, other monitors and hotdesking regularly - it's utterly frustrating. Windows - seriously just plug it in and it works.

When you see a Windows "workstation class" machine (Dell Precision) with an uptime of over a year on a trading desk with 6x 1600x1200 monitors off the back of two Matrox cards, you'll understand what I mean. They just don't go wrong.
I agree. It's one of the easiest wins as well and one I've campaigned about for years.
A quote: "I wasn’t entirely sure, but now I’m somewhat convinced: Magnetix magnets can form an infinite chain that won’t break due by its own weight."

Nonsense! I can't believe the author came to this conclusion.

For a conventional chain, if you make it long enough, the total mass will exceed the tensile strength of the link at the top, the one bearing the entire weight, and the chain will fail.

Remember that the topmost link must bear the weight of all the links of the entire chain -- the bottom link only has to bear its own weight. It's the same for a magnetic chain.

I wish people would learn basic physics before posting articles like this.
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Weird, every time I've used projectors and monitors with a Mac I've never had any problems, but had significant issues getting a multi-monitor setup to work. Granted, this was way back in the XP SP2 days so maybe the situation is improved.
The fundamental difference between literalists and those of us who view the world in a humourous, ironic way is that, for the latter, nothing is off-bounds for a joke. We'll always offend those who believe that some matters are sacred, and the literalists will always annoy and disappoint us. It doesn't do much good for the two sides to argue over who's right, as they can't even agree on first principles.

Personally, I'm fine with goat rape.
No luck :(

http://i.imgur.com/6EWJO.png

EDIT: Ok, I see that I have to also click settings. Thanks!
I'd have to say I migrated from slashdot to Kuro5hin (first place I made a name for myself), then on to Wikipedia where I really made a name for myself, then after being booted off Wikipedia I guess I found this place :-)

I seem to have bypassed Reddit completely. Don't know how that happened...
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It did suck a bit on XP. Vista pretty much fixed it all to be honest. It's pretty much perfect in Windows 7.
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Sorry to nag but the 'goodness' of 22/7 is due to the size of the denominator, not to the number of digits you have to memorize (actually 2, not 3, but anyway). You get less than a .001 relative error with a denominator less than 10, that is why it is a good approximation: nothing to do with memory.

The thing is: as pi is transcendental, there are very very good rational approximations in that sense (this is an old theorem due to Liouville): http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LiouvillesApproximationTheorem...., there is no 'memorizing' going on there.
I thought is was some new form of SQL, and the article will be claiming how it's better than NoSQL.
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There's no need to guess about any of this:

"SAIC's Center for Information Security Technology, an authorized TTAP Evaluation Facility, has performed the evaluation of Microsoft's claim that the security features and assurances provided by Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6a and the C2 Update with networking meet the C2 requirements of the Department of Defense Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) dated December 1985." [1]

Anyway isn't all of this missing the point that the TCSEC C* requirements didn't really amount to much anyway? It's a pity no general purpose operating systems were ever evaluated to A1 criteria, and that that the Common Criteria haven't lead to systems like EROS/Coyotos/Capros receiving more development attention.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20060503192159/http://www.radium....
Yes, isn't saying that rational approximations of pi are useless the same as saying that all approximations of pi are useless? Or is there some meaningful irrational approximation of pi that can be made?
Win+W lets you search Settings directly instead of Apps. You can also press if after you've already typed your search term.
(In case you don't want to reach for the mouse)
> Why Do Colleges Need A Law For Free Digital Textbooks When We Have The Internet?

That's easy to answer -- the Internet is a spectacularly unreliable research resource. By contrast, a textbook, digital or otherwise, costly or free, is the responsibility of its author, not a random, anonymous collection of posters with as many motivations as identities.

If the textbook turns out to be wrong, the author can be held to account. If the Internet turns out to be wrong, who do we blame? Answer: the fool who trusted it.
Are you also fine with racist jokes?
I'm good with Win+R -> ncpa.cpl
Yep. Robbing government swine. I can remember when people were wondering if it would ever hit £3/gallon.
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I've never had troubles with multi-monitor setups on a macbook, I've been using OS X since 10.4. I've pluged it to multiple proyectors, screens, TVs... It always recognized everything and the image was shown instantly.

Same happens with an Apple workstation (Mac Pro, even if it's been VERY neglected lately).
Thanks for this - very helpful :)
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Without having tried it, this sounds a bit like Crunchfish's Active3D[1].

[1] www.crunchfish.com
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Regarding the eBook size, that's the approach I'm taking with a serie I'm working on at the moment.

I set myself a limit of 50 pages per volume, the eBook is highly focused on one subject and does it well (hopefully). I found two main advantages with this approach :

- The first one is that I have a short attention span and it allows me to write a page here and there, as the focus is on one subject it's much easier to just drop a draft, come back later, format it and add it to the overall. I do that very often, mainly in my morning commute in the tube.

- The second one is that it doesn't require me to invest 6 months (or even more) of my time on a huge overtake (I started like that, but after 6months of work and being barely half way, I changed the approach and split the work in smaller pieces), the first ebook took me a bit more than a month to write and format, as I had quite a few things to figure out, now I'm two weeks in the second ebook, and I'm almost done.
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The alternative is government intervention, and people are tremendously resistant to that.

Take, for example, water. Water needs to be expensive because people are using it waste fully because it's cheap. You could have water traders bid up the price of water. Or you could have the government tell people to stop using so much water. I'd personally prefer the government to tell LA and Phoenix they all need to move somewhere that it rains, but that's not going to happen. And I'd rather not see Goldman get rich while people die of thirst. So we'll just run out of water instead. People in Arizona will use it to water their fucking lawns until it runs out.
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Windows 8 boots faster because Windows 8 lies to you when you "Shutdown." Windows 8 actually hibernates instead of shutting down for real; and you can get the same effect by enabling hibernation on Windows 7

Incorrect. This is provenly false. Windows 8 boots faster from a cold boot than Windows 7. It really does. The memory footprint is much smaller. The runtime environment is much more optimized and snappy.

You can tell Microsoft has cut out lots of cruft and optimized critical code-paths, especially with regard to boot.

Hibernation which you refer to is a different feature, and provides you with the same session and programs and state as you had running before, just like a normal sleep would do on a laptop, except it will survive a flat battery. It does so by persisting your entire RAM to disk for reloading on boot. This is completely different from booting which would give you a new, empty session.

So if you end up with an empty session, it's provenly not hibernating, it's booting. And boot is much, much faster.

On all system's I've had, hibarnation, designed to save time, has only caused increased latency for shutdown/sleeping/hibernation, and similar increase in boot times since not only Windows needs to load, but all that persisted state must be restored as well.

On machines with more than 4GBs of RAM this leads to horrible performance and I've permanently disabled the option for the OS to use this due to the performance issues involved.

On Windows 8 I've kept the defaults and things are just flying.
Woah, I'm in the big leagues now! Blocking us actually makes perfect sense, PageKite can be used to avoid a lot of quite reasonable corp security policies.

Can you access sites on other domains which are connected via. PageKite? For example my personal site, http://bre.klaki.net/ or my kite http://bre.pagekite.me/ ?
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> The thing is: as pi is transcendental, there are very very good rational approximations in that sense (this is an old theorem due to Liouville) ...

Expressed another way, for every estimate of Pi's value, however large, there are two integers that, expressed as a ratio, will produce the same result.
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The main issue with restricting availability of 3d printers is an economic one. The potential for engineering improvements, cost savings, insanely tight development cycles and mass bespoke manufacture-to-order would seem to strongly favour the society with the least regulation on this.

Is not as though it is really going to widely cut the cost or massively increase the availability of handguns however.

The economics of established mass manufacture of simple mechanical items will have an edge over 3d printing for a while yet for any items that derive negligible economic benefit from uniqueness or short runs.

There is little economic benefit in 3d-printing basic guns, in the same way as there is little economic benefit in 3d-printing paperclips. People who really want guns can get them dirt cheap already. I think grips will start being 3d printed however and the existing high-end market for bespoke crafted guns will start using technology like metal laser sintering, if it doesn't already.

I am just hoping that a few idiots won't manage to completely hijack the public perception of this technology, just to play the violent-paranoia politics of gun rights, when there are far more interesting uses for this tech than adding more guns to a world that already has a massive surplus of the bloody things.
Bear in mind you can't hover on a tablet.
> Side note: I'm also learning pure "modern" JS just because there's no choice on the client-side.

Knowing Javascript, GWT is a win.
Just that coders who get shit done are often not the A-people. We had a few people that get shit done, and their code was shit. So in the end they cost us more time and money since we had to refactor large parts of their code.
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Yup; example.com is defined as not available for email not as far as DNS is concerned.
> What you're saying is demonstrably untrue.

Citation needed.
What are the advantages?

One advantage: you can configure mutt to behave just like vim (as far as shortcut keys go).

If you don't use vim you won't understand. If you do use vim, having mutt use vim for editing combined with vim-ish hotkeys makes for a very powerful, simple, and enjoyable tool.
Annoyed and disappointed that people are concerned about rape. Wow.
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The itunes thing is actually pretty interesting. There may be the same case as there was before for an exception.

I have a work mac, work pc, home mac, kobo, ipod & android. Sounds like a lot when I list it out. I'm not really a gadget person and some of those are pretty old. I use them all though and every one or two years I expect to add or replace a "device". Apple will be considered and sometimes chosen.

That's not unusual. Most Apple customers are not monogamous. Realistically, Apple have never been the company with so many options you never need to go anywhere else. They have been the company that's reluctantly good at bringing devices together and connecting them with a marketplace.

They don't like harmonizing elements they don't control. They would prefer the world divided nicely into Apple people and non Apple people. That's not realistic.

To improve Apple users' experience they need to support foreign devices. Mac users use android and many avoid itunes altogether (they need to think in terms of 'files' anyway). Ipod users use android and their ipod never has the podcasts they've been listening to. iPad users can't read the book they are halfway through on sony reader.

They wanted ipod users to just plug them into a mac, but that wasn't realistic so they released itunes for windows. I think its time for another compromise.
I'm wondering what the demographics of wikipedia is though - I'd not be surprised if it's biased towards students and tech people. I know for sure the rest of my family does in no way visit wikipedia as much as me and my co-workers.
True, but beside the point that the charts don't explain their meaning.

Also, in a tablet, you can point at the chart with your finger and get the same information. Or, in this case, the lack of information. :)

EDIT: I just tried this chart on my tablet and you get the same data by pointing.
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"This is provenly false"

Citation needed.
"Coming Home to Vim" is a pretty good post too from Steve:

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/
The pneumatic "marching" rig they used was anything but synchronized or controlled. I would put little faith in that particular Mythbust.
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> So if you end up with an empty session, it's provenly not hibernating, it's booting.

Not necessarily. You can hibernate the machine after the user is logged off and restart from that point.
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He's changed it now. He's a pretty sensible guy!
Looks like he read the concerns and changed it to murder. He's a pretty reasonable human being :-)
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So Apple has successfully ruined one competitor's ability to compete, innovate and bring products to market. And lost.

In a free market that should be the most punishable offense of all.

How much is that going to cost Apple? How many billions will they be forced to pay in punitive damages?

Will they be banned from making similar claims in the future? Have they lost "karma" so when serving the next "ban kthx plz"-request, they will have to prove their case more thoroughly? Will their existing, similarly baseless claims be re-investigated and maybe denied or withdrawn?

What have we (as people, and as a judicial system) learned from this which means we can punish abuse and avoid having cases like this happen again?

This is after all in the US, and in the US we do not want anything to hinder the free market, right?
Mutt has plenty of unfixed bugs, just look at the bug tracker and distro-specific patches (in Debian for instance). It is a wonderful piece of software, I use it daily, but its development definitely miss momentum.
I wonder if Windows 8 will include some behavior research by default, to see if people actually use Metro or not, and if too many ignore it, maybe change course with Windows 9.
No, no, not at all: the meaning of the theorem is that there are amazingly accurate approximations for small sized denominators, that is.
I don't get your point. Are you suggesting that they should had shut down the company once Google appeared, and the reason they didn't is "Russian pride"? WTF?
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